NO RELIEF WORKERS NOW
EFFECT OF LEGISLATION I Per Press Association] WELLINGTON, July 23. The effect of recent legislation, particularly the amendments abolishing the distinction between relief workers and industria' workers, was commented on by Mr. Butler, National Secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ Federation, who said: “To-day the term relief worker is now a thing of the past. The position,” he said, "now is: (1) Awards and agreements apply to what were known as relief workers; (2) the men must join a union where an award exists covering the work they were doing: (3) fhe unions can make representations on behalf of the men; (4) overtime and other award conditions apply; (5) the onus is on the employing authority to se» that the rr.en become members of the union under whose award they are working. "The men,” he said, "now have the same rights and privileges in the eyes of the law as any industrial
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 8
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157NO RELIEF WORKERS NOW Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 8
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